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Sunday, February 24, 2008

WOOO! - It's 33 degrees outside!!!

That means stuff is melting. That means its warm, and you should all be riding your bikes outside. That means that our all too appropriately named "Spring Thaw" road race is on the way, along with the rest of the awesome collegiate road season - which, at least at this point, is on track to consist of 5 race weekends!

And when you get really stoked up on biking, but realize you have to actually take some recovery time off the bike (I know, I know), you can start spending that time thinking about, reading about, and talking about cycling.

For instance - go to Velodrama. Bikes, food, beer, people talking about bikes, alley races, auctions for bike stuff.

It will be awesome I am sure, and may even feature some models from our own team. Of course, this is due to the rigorous application process necessary to join the team - we do in fact screen for beautiful people (and none of that "beautiful on the inside" crap - I mean good looking). I mean, look at these people:







And of course, if you somehow got on the team and vanity isn't your thing, you may think to yourself "I'm just a humble cyclist - I can't take all these lights and photographers." Well, we have scheduled just the thing for you - halfway through the night, you can go to the pavilion clean-up and clean up after people!! Nothing is more humbling than janitorial work, and this time it'll make money for the team.

After that, make sure you are making it to practice - we have cookies sometimes and it'll help get you ready for racing, spring break, etc.

And if you are going on SB - keep your fingers crossed - it's more of like a hope against hope, but if that cat is still there, I'm gonna be pumped:


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